alienware m9700i r1 no video sometimes

hi i have had my m9700i r1 for around a year now and has been great for lan partys and bits like that but last night when i went to boot it up i got a black screen tho it still booted windows as the windows sound played so i turned it back off and back on and it booted fine and was playing cs go and the laptop restarted it self and then i had no video again so have reseat the video cards and im only getting it to show video after 20 or 30 restarts

i have tryed booting with my spare 2gb of ram and still the same
and tryed my spare hard drive and still no video
have linked it up to my lcd tv and still the same

i dont no if its my video cards gone or what now as when it shows video its running so nice and no lines on the screen or anything


my spec is
intel core 2 2.3ghz each core
4gb ram
nvidia 7950 gtx sli 512mb each
2x 240gb hard drives

 

Sounds like the video going out. Have you checked to see if the card is overheating at all when it does work?

 

yep i have a gpu / cpu temp running why i was playing mw3 on high settings today and didnt go over 80c

i wanted to know if the nvidia 8700m's are better then the 7950 gtx's i got fitted ?

and would the 8700m's work in my laptop as got them in my old laptop what broken but the cards are still working fine

 

I am not sure if they will work but they will have better performance. Always worth a shot if you can find them. I've upgraded the card in my m5750 (came out the same time as your alienware) several different times.

 

right b4 when i got it booted up and had video sometimes after playing games for under 30mins it would shut down and woodnt have any video but i just went and got a usb notebook cooler and been playing cs go on high settings and my gpu's have not gone over 90

one more thing i want to add is when i go to power up my power button is orange but if i take my battery out the power button is blue
so i fort it maybe my charger on the way out and thats why im not all ways getting video just in case the charger is not putting into the laptop to fully power up at times as the battery is not chargering very well tho only last month the battery used to last for around 45mins

 

all sorted now was the charger i got a new one and been fine and chargers fine and no more video playing up